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The Movement of Water in Soils

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IN NATURE of August 6, 1908, Dr. Russell refers, in his note on soil moisture, to some information on this subject which I published in Memoir No. 6 (Chemical Series) of the Department of Agriculture in India, and says, “Dr. Leather argues that water moves upwards from a limited depth only. … The results are equally well explained on the supposition that the upward movement takes place at all depths, since the amount of water present in a particular layer depends on the respective rates at which water is gained from below and lost to the upper layers.”

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LEATHER, J. The Movement of Water in Soils. Nature 79, 309–310 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079309c0

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